At the News Corp AGM in New York on Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch faced an awkward question about his company’s support for climate deniers.
Apparently Holt Street did not get the memo.
Rupert Murdoch, Wednesday:
“There are no climate change deniers around [at News Corp], I can assure you.”
Ian Plimer, The Australian, Friday:
“There are no carbon emissions. If there were, we could not see because most carbon is black.
“We are not living in a period of catastrophic climate change. The past tells us it’s business as usual.
“It has never been shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming.
“The main greenhouse gas is water vapour.
“Carbon dioxide is plant food. It is neither a pollutant or a toxin. Without carbon dioxide, all life on earth would die.”
Hey Ian pilmer, look at Venus’ climate. You really want to look forward to that much of a greenhouse?
Please…are you saying that the IPCC’s claims are beyond a western educated person’s abilities to understand?
If so, you should stop commenting on this issue.
Is your statement based on any known science?
Ian Plimer is really on the ball here, carbon is black. Consider the pure form ie: the majority of the world’s mined diamonds. Onya, Ian.
Doesn’t He read ” The Herald/swine? Bolt ??
[CO2] is neither a pollutant or a toxin.
Talk like this is why we should have fossil emissions described as a pollutant in law. Once established, the connotation that pollution is a crime against the commons would allow us to criminalise such barefaced denials. Precedents would evolve from that basis, and once we have a legal link between fossil carbon pollution and human fatalities, we can prosecute against denial of the holocaust ahead.
Hence the lively plant and animal populations of Venus and Mars?
Submariners work without any health effects over a six month period in a workplace with CO2 levels of 1000ppm.
Ans the occupational lower threshold exposure level is 30,000ppm, according the US OSHA.
So what’s your point again?
So, the magic of air conditioning, just re -create it for a planet wide operation instead of the old fashioned natural weather system. Beyond Trump maybe, but our very own ’miracle man’?
Scotosis: definition
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Etymology
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scotosis (uncountable)
Intellectual blindness: a hardening of the mind against unwanted wisdom.
Gee…all I can say is it’s clear that you’re way out of your depth in this discussion.
I’d rebut your point save for the fact that I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Try harder.
Ian Plimer is respected Geology Professor who doesn’t mind stirring up some controversy, but climate science is beyond his area of knowledge and competence.
Therefore, he is a perfect contributor to News Ltd, since he can add a veneer of academic gloss to the usual tribe of unqualified mundane journalists, who can only spew repetitive and puerile anti climate change opinions.
Next Murdoch will tell us that he didn’t ever intend to build a news media empire and influence governments for his own business advantage.
No climate change deniers in his organisation? Time to get the sunglasses and cane out Rupert,but don’t join the three blind mice, the rats have been holding a place for you for decades.